SmartWare Announces Beta Program

[Andy Sjostrom]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.smartware4.com' target='_blank'>http://www.smartware4.com</a><br /><br /></div>SmartWare announces the beta program for SmartWare 4 for Pocket PC. SmartWare is an application development environment for Windows and Windows CE based applications. The SmartWare environment includes Word Processor, spreadsheet, and database modules.<br /> <br />"SmartWare includes a full featured programming language editor, compiler, and debugger. Any action you take in the SmartWare environment can be recorded as a program, which makes automating any task easy to do. SmartWare gives you complete control of the environment including menus and toolbars. ... If you are interested in participating in the beta program, see <a href="http://www.smartware4.com">http://www.smartware4.com</a> for more information."

[topps]

Well this could be interesting to revisit. I created the first network capable small doctors office system back in the late 80s, using SmartWare II.

I wonder if it will be quicker to load apps that Visual Studio .Net

[jefito]

Interesting to revisit? I'll say -- I was one of the original developers of SmartWare (or Smart Software, as it was originally known). We bagan in the spring of 1983, writing the word processor and spreadsheet (the database was written at the main office in KC, we were a satellite office in Maine). I had a 256K Compaq portable (luggable), dual 5 1/4" floppies, what a machine. DOS version 1.0, no directories. Lattice C compiler. Back in the day for PCs, indeed.

[DaveE]

I remember doing some pretty nifty coding in SmartWare II in '88/'89. It was hot stuff in the days before we joined all the other sheep and implemented MS-Office. It will be interesting to see how it transfers to PPC.